Holy Hell they really are this stupid...

[one_voice]

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The National Review’s Jillian Kay Melchior is ecstatic to find a black man shining shoes at the convention center where CPAC is being held.

With the amazingly tone-deaf title: Putting the Shine on CPAC.

CPAC participants enjoyed a particularly rare service at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center: The simple shoe shine.

And yes, they really did use this photo to illustrate the article:



You know that Republican “rebranding” meme they’ve been trying to push since they lost the election? In two days, CPAC has pretty much killed that meme dead.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/41740_And_Now_the_National_Review_Chimes_In-_Putting_the_Shine_on_CPAC



edited to add:

Wright began shining shoes after the airline he once worked for defaulted on its pension obligations, driving him to find a source of income in retirement.

“I was able to create a pension for myself by creating an entrepreneurial activity,” Wright says. He noticed that fewer people were entering the shoe-shining profession, and “I saw that as an entrepreneurial opportunity” – an ethic that sits well with the CPAC crowd

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/343101/putting-shine-cpac-jillian-kay-melchior

[Newest Reality]

1. Yikes!

What are they trying to say there?

Oh ... ah ... well ... yeah.

[Skittles]

2. entrepreneurial opportunity

that's what shoe-shining is called now?

[Warpy]

3. CPAC managed to marginalize itself this year

between the batshit crazy rhetoric, the cluelessness exemplified by this picture, and the lineup of losers and has beens they had speaking.

They'll continue to sputter on in Dixie and in parts of the Moron Corridor, but that's about it.

[liberal N proud]

4. The GOP thinks that if the make news talking about change, it will convince voters.

Then they will not change.

[The Wielding Truth]

5. Wright began shining shoes after the airline he once worked for defaulted on its pension obligations

God. He had to find a way to survive after getting shafted on his airline pension! I admire his drive but I am disgusted that we can't make pensions guaranteed.

[siligut]

6. Look how happy he is

The GOPigs are just trying to suck-up to the happy black people.

[drm604]

7. The original National Review article

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/343101/putting-shine-cpac-jillian-kay-melchior

Wright began shining shoes after the airline he once worked for defaulted on its pension obligations, driving him to find a source of income in retirement.

“I was able to create a pension for myself by creating an entrepreneurial activity,” Wright says. He noticed that fewer people were entering the shoe-shining profession, and “I saw that as an entrepreneurial opportunity” – an ethic that sits well with the CPAC crowd.

They take a tragic story of a man who is forced to spend his retirement shining shoes because his employer defaulted on his pension, and they make it sound like the man is an entrepreneur living the American dream.

[one_voice]

8. They really are the armpit..

of hell.

[BrotherIvan]

11. Oh yes

Kind of like W. praising the woman with three jobs...

[Blue Palasky]

13. thanks for that background

now this pic just pisses me off.

[loudsue]

9. The republicans via CPAC and CNN are proving how EMBARRASSINGLY stupid they are

First, they feel really sorry for a couple of rapists, THEN they think this shoe shine picture is supposed to make everyone feel real nostalgic ....or superior...or WTF I have no idea. The corporate/republican owned media and their CPAC sponsors.

They are so absolutely clueless.

[defacto7]

12. But if you repeat the stupid enough

and put it in the face of the gullible repeatedly as if it's the way it should be, the ignorant will believe it and follow it. I look at it as an opportunity to show how ugly and backward the RW can be and it seems logical that the rest of America can see it too. That just isn't the way it works. Repeat the lie and the stupid will follow.

[NBachers]

10. "How Uniquely Amurikan!" They should be able to fit in some "bootstrap" reference somehow

[mercymechap]

14. How Quaint!

There's the stuffy old white man, and he's probably thinking that the guy shining his shoes is so lucky to have such a fine job, shining his shoes.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. I swear,...these people ARE the Onion.

[Bigredhunk]

16. But they have Ben Carson

smh

[LeftInTX]

17. From the, "How not to look like a racist" crowd

[alfredo]

18. That's going to leave a mark.

[Blue Owl]

28. Imagine, being tasked with the job of shining that CPAC turd

...shudder...

[alfredo]

29. Fox is on it.

[lonestarnot]

19. OMG

Those fuckwits!

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. He was able to create a pension for himself by shining shoes?

Did he charge $100 a shine??

[SleeplessinSoCal]

21. The goal really is to return to the pre-civil rights era. But with the bonus of slave labor having

been the former American Middle Class worker.

[smallcat88]

22. what did you expect?

Remember, this is the party who keeps losing elections by going to far to the right and then surmising that they're losing because their candidates aren't conservative enough. I defy anyone to find two working brain cells to rub together in that entire party.

[Kablooie]

23. I can't believe this isn't the Onion!

It's a perfect Onion article.

The fact it's an actual article in the National Review is breathtaking in it's blindness.

This is why the conservatives believe that Colbert is an actual right wing show.

[Auntie Bush]

24. Not the Onion, but true life hateful, homophobic, stingy, racist, angry, old, gun loving Republicans

[HughBeaumont]

25. You know more than a few of them are going "'ts thuh way it SHUD be! Hur hur hur hur . . ."

He's where he's at because of the unbridled corporatism (and it's usual shellacking of workers) that the Conservaturds wholeheartedly support. Mr. Wright was robbed of a retirement, but in the eyes of the Reaganites decided to "Make Lemonade".

[MindPilot]

26. Betcha a dollar that cracker didn't spend any time in the service

If he did he would know how to shine his own damn shoes.

[Blue Owl]

27. The Shining II

Even more terrifying than the original